The Republican Trump, in an interview airing Sunday on CBS's "60 Minutes" news show, said he has no indication that Mattis is leaving, but added, "It could be that he is".

"I have a very good relationship with him", Mr. Trump told CBS'Lesley Stahl.

"I'm not going to ask it again", she said, giving up. It could be that he is.

"I think he's sort of a Democrat, if you want to know the truth", Trump said in the interview slated to air Sunday night. We're going to get to the bottom of it and there will be severe punishment. That the President's vanishingly rare appearance on a nonpartisan news program had resulted in a spectacle in which randomly assorted questions were bulldozed by a man eager to speak, and in which the interviewer generally left the viewers to decide what those answers meant without the benefit of meaningful follow-up, made the point clear. "Everybody. People leave. That's Washington".

Lieutenant General HR McMaster was replaced by Bolton in April, while John Kelly, the White House chief of staff and also a retired four-star general, is reported to have lost influence with the mercurial president.

STAHL: Is it true General Mattis said to you, "The reason for North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and the reason for all these alliances is to prevent World War III?"

President Donald Trump: I think something's happening. "Why should I pledge to you?"

Trump also accused scientists who say hurricanes are getting more frequent and intense because of climate change of having "a very big political agenda". Lesley Stahl grilled Trump like a cheeseburger over the now infamous campaign rally. where Trump suggested Dr. Ford was a liar, to the delight of thousands who cackled their approval.

Stahl: You are, you are.

"They can do what they - I will tell you this", Trump said. I don't have to pledge to you.

Mattis, seen as one of the steadiest but also more independent members of Trump's cabinet, has served as a low-profile counterweight to the president in his often abrasive treatment of United States allies. "In the meantime, I'm president and you're not".

In her post-interview reflections, Stahl said there was one question he "really didn't want to answer". ("I don't want to hurt jobs", he explained.) Trump acknowledged that son-in-law Jared Kushner gave Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman a ring to personally inquire into the country's possible culpability and even murder of Khashoggi.

"Trump is a refreshing reminder that the guy that's in the White House is another human being", says Louis Rossetto, the co-founder of Wired and author of the new book Change Is Good: A Story of the Heroic Era of the Internet.

Indonesia limits foreign role in Sulawesi disaster relief
Natural disaster survivors carry relief goods delivered by an Indonesian Army helicopter in Poroo, Central Sulawesi, Oct. 7, 2018. Possibly thousands more are buried in areas where the force of the quake liquefied the soil and sucked houses into the earth.

Out at home: Yankees eliminated by rival Red Sox in ALDS
They got shutout innings from Matt Barnes , Ryan Brazier, and ace-turned-temporary-setup-man Chris Sale , which was a surprise. Right-handed hitter Steve Pearce was set to start at first base Monday night at Yankee Stadium against righty Luis Severino .

Shareholders must vote on Musk's return as Tesla chairman
This news comes on the heels of word that James is stepping down after the sale of 21st Century Fox's assets to Disney wraps up. Rowe Price Group Inc., which owned 11.93 million TSLA shares at the end of Q2 2018, increased its stake in the company in Q3.

Launch failure may imperil Canadian astronaut's trip to ISS
The astronauts have landed back on earth and initial reports show that they are "in good condition and in contact", NASA said. Glitches found in Russia's Proton and Soyuz rockets in 2016 were traced to manufacturing flaws at the plant in Voronezh.

PH wins bid for seat in UN Human Rights Council - DFA
India had previously been elected to the Geneva-based Human Rights Council for the 2011-2014 and 2014-2017 term. The UNHRC has 47 members elected for a period of the span of three years on a regional group basis.

Selena Gomez hospitalized in a psychiatric clinic
Selena is now at an East Coast psychiatric facility and is reportedly receiving dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). According to TMZ , Gomez checked in to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles in the latter half of September.